All the tools you need to lead beyond the crisis

Most organisations don't fail in the first hours of a crisis. They fail in the weeks that follow, when emergency structures linger, decision-making drifts and no one is quite sure what comes next.

This toolkit was built to change that.

Drawn from more than 30 years of advising CEOs, boards and senior leaders through real crises, the Crisis Leadership Toolkit gives you the practical tools to lead with clarity from the moment a crisis lands through to full recovery and back to business as usual.

Every tool opens ready to use. No setup. No configuration. Designed for the moment things are moving too fast for anything complicated.

What's in the bundle

Before a crisis

Risk Register & Matrix: Build your risk profile and understand what needs attention before it demands it
Risk Readiness Assessment: Assess your organisation's preparedness and identify the gaps worth closing
Crisis Teams Builder: Identify and score candidates for your Incident Management and Recovery teams before you need them

When a crisis hits

Phase Finder: Diagnose which crisis phase you're in when the situation is moving fast and the phases are blurring
Incident Management Tracker: Keep decisions, actions, commitments and accountability in one place throughout the response
IMT & Recovery Team Duty Cards: Role-specific reference cards for your crisis and recovery teams. Print them, hand them out, get to work
Situation Report (SitRep) Template: Structured updates that keep leadership and stakeholders informed without losing time

Into recovery

Recovery Mandate Template: Define scope, authority, objectives and success criteria so recovery has direction from day one
Stakeholder Prioritisation Tool: Focus on who needs attention now, who can wait and why
Psychological Recovery Indicator: Diagnose whether your organisation is genuinely moving forward or still anchored to the event